PSI - Issue 66

Domenico Ammendolea et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 66 (2024) 396–405 Author name / Structural Integrity Procedia 00 (2025) 000–000

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Fig. 5. A three-point bending test of a perforated beam with an eccentric crack: (a) a schematic of the geometric, boundary conditions, loading scheme, and (b) unit cell of the perforated microstructure; (c) zoomed view of the microscopic mesh.

Fig. 6. A three-point bending test of a perforated beam with an eccentric crack: (a) a comparison in terms of load versus displacement between the proposed method and numerical predictions of Khoei and Saadat (Khoei and Saadat, 2019); (b) snapshots of the mesh configurations of the beam during the crack propagation obtained through the present approach.